Life's Too Short (Season 1)

Life's Too Short (2011) is a British mockumentary sitcom you can watch online on iFILM. Warwick Davis plays a sharpened version of himself — an actor just over three feet tall chasing a serious career while the industry only ever sees "a showbiz dwarf."

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the team behind The Office and Extras, shoot him in their trademark fake-documentary style. Warwick begs for parts, drags through a brutal divorce, drowns in tax debt and embarrasses himself on camera roughly once a scene. Gervais and Merchant turn up as themselves, the smug pair he keeps pestering for work.

The real hook is the cameos, and nobody gets off easy: Liam Neeson solemnly tries his hand at improv comedy, while Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Carell and Sting all play awful versions of themselves. The comedy runs mean, cringe-soaked and deliberately uncomfortable — squarely for fans of British wince humour. Stream every episode of Life's Too Short online on iFILM.